I haven't visited the Power LIne site for awhile. What's new with those deep thinkers?
Yesterday, John HInderaker, taking note of Rush LImbaugh's health problems, wrote: "Let's all say a prayer for the well-being of a good man who has contributed more than almost anyone else to public discourse in our time." Today he notes approvingly that, according to a Rasmussen poll, 58% of respondents are in favor of waterboarding the Nigerian man who tried to blow up an airliner as it approached the Detroit airport on Christmas Day. The debate, says John, is over, "and Dick Cheney won."
Meanwhile, also today, Scott Johnson complains of "stretchers" in a Ben Nelson ad.
On Christmas Eve, in a post entitled "Arrogance, Corruption, Stupidity," he (Scott) summarized his views on the health care reform bill then poised to pass the Senate. Struggling to express in words his distress, Scott resorted to quoting "Oklahoma's magnificent Senator (and Dr.) Tom Coburn." In an addendum, John, speaking of the Dems, adds: "These are not people who can be compromised with or deflected from their drive toward socialism."
It should be said that in the long-ago days of March Scott was able himself to give poetic expression to his "despair" (his word). "I feel utterly powerless," he wrote, "to do anything about the fellow in the Oval Office who combines infantile leftism and adolescent grandiosity in roughly equal measures. It seems to me that every day he is responsible for assaults on the freedom and well being of the American people. I can't keep up and I can't stand to pay attention."
You understand. It is Obama who is "infantile" and "grandiose."
Back to John, who, on October 14, called "our friend" Rep. Michele Bachmann "smart, articulate, and telegenic." Unless describing her as "a tax litigator by trade" counts, he doesn't provide evidence of her brains or verbal graces, but probably had in mind, for examples:
- Her grave warning that America is "running out of rich people."
- Her shout-out to the black chairman of the Republican National Committee: "Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man!"
- Her statement, "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat President, Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama; I just think it's an interesting coincidence."
It's an interesting coincidence, though of course not anyone's fault, that the friends of the Power Line philosophers are as crazy as they are. No matter what planet you live on, Happy New Year from Eric the Blue!
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